Youth Service Learning (YSL) is available to all Marshfield High School students on a voluntary basis. No academic credit is given for participation. Students who complete 100 hours or more of community service receive special recognition each year. It will be noted on their transcripts, and the President's Student Service Award will be presented to students who serve 100 hours or more their senior year.
A minimum of 60 hours of service must be in the community in approved activities. A maximum of 40 hours could be in-school service helping students of staff members in approved activities. No retro credit toward the 100 hours will be given for service completed prior to enrollment in this program.
Students are encouraged to complete the Youth Service Learning Registration Form as freshmen but enrollment is available throughout each school year. Students who are members of the National Honor Society (NHS) may get dual credit for service housed with NHS and YSL. Volunteer hours must be recorded on the Volunteer Confirmation Form and returned to Rhonda Goettl.
YSL offers you opportunities to:
Explore a career in a non-profit agency
Enhance employability by gaining work experience and references
Learn firsthand about some civic issues, needs and problems
Experience the satisfaction that comes from working without pay to help someone else
Develop communication skills, teamwork, civic responsibility, and leadership skills
Partial List of Community Service Opportunities
(60 Hour Minimum)
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
Child Care Centers
Environmental Projects - Recycling, Park Clean Up, Etc.
Girl/Boy Scouts Community Service Projects
Habitat for Humanity
Home Delivered Meals Program (Noon, 4:30, and weekends)
Marshfield Area YMCA
Marshfield Medical Research and Education Foundation
Marshfield Center
Marshfield Public Library
New Visions Art Gallery
Norwood Health Center
Provide support for someone with a disability
Recreation Department (volunteer coaching or maintenance)
Ronald McDonald House
Samaritan House
St. Joseph's Hospital Volunteer
St. Vincent DePaul
Soup-&-Socks
Special Olympics
Wildwood Zoo
Other Approved Activities
Partial List of In-School Service Opportunities
(40 Hour Maximum)
Athletic Manager
Assist Students With Disabilities
Elementary Peer Tutor
Elementary Teacher Assistant
Peer Helper
School Forest Counselor
School Tutor
Teacher Assistant
VOICE Tutor
Other Approved Activities
Making a Difference
Students at Marshfield High School volunteer over 2,300 hours annually.
The program provides volunteers for over 25 different sites in our schools and community.
For further information bout volunteerism in the Marshfield area, visit:
